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EASTERN HINDOOSTAK. 



Maugree 

 Pagodas. 



fying the infedious mouth breathing an halitus fatal as the 

 lleam of Avernus. 



Vast Forest. From Shevagunga, a fort about twenty miles north of Saven- 

 droog, is a for^ft which extends as far as the Cavery, near feventy 

 miles, bounded on the weft by the Maddoor. It embraces 

 Sa'i:e7t-dyoog and many other droogs, and fwarms with tigers, and 

 various beafts of prey. The tigers are of a ftupendous fize ; one 

 which was prefented by Ayder, fit owner of thefe domains, to 

 the Nabob of Arcot, was eighteen feet in length, which was 

 three feet longer than any fcen before. 



Maugree, Ho?ne, xii. a large town, midway between Saven- 

 droog and Outre-droog, w^as a place of fandlity during the 

 Hindoo reign. The Pagodas and Choultries are numerous and 

 magnificent, but abandoned, and falling faft to decay, in pro- 

 portion as the numbers of the profefTors of the Hindoo religion 

 decline. The remains of the paintings and fculptures of the 

 antient mythology evince the former fplendor. 



OuTRE-DRooc. Outre-droogy feven miles from Saven-droog, is in flrength 

 only inferior to it. On the aceefiible part it was defended by 

 fix ftrong walls, rifing on the fteep fide one above the other : 

 this was called the lower fort. To Lieutenant Colonel Stuart 

 was committed the capture : Captain Scott rapidly carried it by 

 efcalade. The Killedar had hardly time to afk a parley. Lieu- 

 tenants 'James, Doufe, and Macpherfon followed the blow. 

 Supported by Scott, they gained the fort on the fummit, 

 through the fix walls, and put the garrifon to the fword, ex- 

 cepting thofe who chofe to avoid its edge, by precipitating , 



themfelves down the rocks. 



Holea^ 



